READINGSM-Sept. 11Miller, “Reading the Bible
Historically,” 17--32Viviano, “Source Criticism,”
35--57 in To Each Its Own MeaningVan A. Harvey, The Historian
and the Believer : The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief

M-Nov. 6Gunn, “Narrative Criticism,”
201ff in To Each its Own MeaningR. S. Sugirtharajah (Editor),
The Postcolonial Bible and Gerald O. West, The Academy of the Poor : Towards
a Dialogical Reading of the Bible

M-Nov. 13McKnight,“Reader Response
Criticism,”230ff in To Each its Own MeaningCristina Grenholm and Daniel
Patte (Editors) Reading Israel in Romans : Legitimacy and Plausibility
of Divergent Interpretations

M-Nov. 27Tull, “Rhetorical Criticism
and Intertextuality,” 156ff. in To Each its Own
MeaningDaniel Patte, Ethics of
Biblical Interpretation : A Reevaluation

M-Dec. 4Nolan Fewell, “Reading the
Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism,” 268ff in To Each its Own Meaning Elisabeth Schüssler
Fiorenza, Rhetoric and Ethic : the Politics of Biblical Studies.

M-Dec. 11Segovia, “Reading the Bible
Ideologically: Socioeconomic Criticism,” 283ff in To Each its Own MeaningEmmanuel Levinas, Richard
A. Cohen New Talmudic Readings and Roger Burggraeve, “The Bible Gives to
Thought : Lévinas on the Possibility and Proper Nature
of Biblical Thinking.”